A bipartisan group is readying to unleash the most comprehensive immigration reform bill in 25 years in what could be a dramatic victory for the policies of US President Barack Obama. A bill is now anticipated to be presented to the Senate as early as Monday, according to Democrat Robert Menendez, who is one of […]
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While opponents of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States are planning to step up their efforts to prevent a bill from making it through Congress, the reality is that such reform now appears to be inevitable, at least according to some proponents of the issue. “Politicians know that if they stand in the way
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Hispanic voters started the push for immigration reform in the United States when they backed President Obama in last year’s election. This month they will see whether or not those seeds will actually be able to grow in the toxic partisan atmosphere of Capitol Hill. Congress returned from its spring break yesterday and top of
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Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican champion for immigration reform and a key member of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” who are negotiating a draft bill, calls South Carolina “Ground Zero” – and for good reason. The state is emerging as a big battleground in the debate over US immigration. Members of the Republican Party are
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Efforts that are currently being made to try to revamp the immigration laws in the United States could bring forth at least one unexpected benefit as a side effect by providing a nascent boost to the burgeoning recovery in the housing market. The amount of homeowners who are foreign born is set to increase by
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Almost a million people were granted US citizenship in 2012 with just over a million becoming legal permanent residents, according to new data from the US Department of Homeland Security. The information demonstrates that the amount of new holders of a green card and of naturalization, the method by which one becomes a citizen of
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Senators trying to come up with a bill for overhauling the immigration laws in the United States are currently in the midst of debating the two waiting periods that immigrants have to endure before they can gain permanent US citizenship. The New York Times says that the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in
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While there are numerous hurdles to overcome for immigration reform in the United States to take place, it is nonetheless a promising sign that there is a fair amount of support even from the more conservative members of Congress. The debate over US immigration reform might have been overwhelmed temporarily by the coverage of the
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As a part of the Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, a panel of innovators connected to the school, and all born overseas, spoke to almost 200 students. The Peninsula Press says that the event, which took place on 3 March, had the aim of teaching students how to create a start-up company while at the
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Brazilian nationals are showing an increased level of interest in the EB-5 program because it offers them a fast track to gain US citizenship, Emigrate.co.uk claims. Affluent nationals in Brazil have been scooping up large amounts of the market’s luxury real estate in Florida and experts are predicting that this trend is only going to
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Several hundred eligible immigrants who possess specialized skills in languages or some other kind of professional background have been offered the chance to get on an accelerated path to US citizenship by the United States Army in exchange for serving in uniform. The Associated Press says that the Military Accession Vital to the National Interest,
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